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The court, which is considering the events on October 13, 2005, in Nalchik, refused to consider the challenge of the court staff, petitioned on August 5 by a number of defendants and their advocates. The presiding judge Galina Gorislavskaya has stated that a challenge may be put forward only prior to start of litigation, and thereafter - only on the grounds unknown earlier.

In ski resort of Dombai in Karachai-Cherkess Alfred Frank, resident of Berlin aged 69, who disappeared yet on September, 7, is being searched for.

District press service reports that building dwelling houses for residents of Volgograd who have remained homeless as a result of fires will start on Monday, September, 13.

During two special operations which took place in Dagestan on September, 12, thirteen people involved in armed underground were killed, among them the leader of Kizil-jurt armed group, two militia men perished, too. This was reported by informational center of National Anti-terrorist committee (NAC).

On September, 12, Levan Chitadze, leader of youth movement "ARA" (which means "no") and Levan Khochlashvili, member of the movement, detained near the Georgian President's residence on September, 10, for disobedience to the police have been released from the investigative isolation ward of Mzkheta (near Tbilisi).

Local emergency services reported that thirteen children aged from 3 to 6 were taken to District Infectious diseases hospital for suspicion of intestinal infection.

In order to cross the Russian-Georgian border through the "Kazbegi-Verkhni Lars" check point, Georgian citizens need Russian visas issued by the Swiss Embassy in Tbilisi. According to one of Georgian passenger forwarders, it prevents to increase passenger traffic. Residents on both sides of the border see a need to simplify the procedure of crossing the border.

Today, about 250 persons gathered in Freedom Square of the capital of North Ossetia to hold a non-sanctioned picket against terrorism. The rally demanded from local authorities to ensure their safety and stop terror acts in the republic.

Today in the morning, an explosive device was triggered in the city of Tyrnyauz, Kabardino-Balkaria, at the Eternal Flame of the Memorial. Fortunately, nobody suffered.

Today, in Pyatigorsk (Stavropol Territory), a monument to General Alexei Yermolov was opened.

All the bodies of all the casualties of the terror act committed in Vladikavkaz on September 9, including the terrorist-suicide bomber, are identified, the administration of the city reports.

The account of the payment system, through which funds were raised for the wife of the opposition-tuned blogger Alaudin Dudko, known under nick name ingushetiya_ru, is blocked. This became known from one of his friends - Vanda Khugaeva, who had earlier announced the fund-raising campaign in her blog in Livejournal.

When at night a Ural armoured truck with OMON (special militia) fighters inside was blown up, the gas pipeline Elborus-Terskol was damaged.

Today, the country started the NATO exercises "Armenia-2010" aimed at elimination of calamity consequences and involving 333 experts and observers from 28 countries and 5 international organizations, and 373 Armenian specialists.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, on September 13 a court session will take place in Moscow on the criminal case against Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

At the moment, Russian and Armenian parties are in negotiations on fixing new higher gas tariffs. According to Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisyan, within two months the Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) "ArmRosGazprom" - supplier of Russian gas to Armenia - will make a statement on the outcomes of the consultations held.

On September 6-8, meetings took place in Moscow, where women-peacemakers, activists of the Alliance of Russian and Georgian NGOs, discussed the ways to solve problems in conflict regions, which may be addressed by the public.

The active phase of the special operation conducted in Verkhnie Makhargi village, Sergokalin District of Dagestan, is over. Four persons, who rendered, according to power agents, armed resistance, were liquidated; a SOBR (special weapons assault team) fighter was also lost.

The law enforcement bodies of Dagestan are searching Abdullah Nustapaev, a resident of Gimry village, Untsukul District, who had worked at the Irganai Hydraulic Power Plant (HPP) and disappeared after the fire. Power agents do not exclude that Vladimir Redkin, chief engineer of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Sulak Hydropower Cascade", released from captivity, could have given data about weak places of the HPP to terrorists.

Levan Chitadze, Leval Kochloshvili and Georgiy Apkhadze, members of the "No" movement, were arrested in the course of the protest action, held near the President's residence Avlabari, in the capital of Georgia, and demanding release of political prisoners.